Japan, however, has deferred its response to the U.S. request, fearing possible ramifications on bilateral issues with Russia, including a long-standing territorial dispute.

The Foreign Ministry claimed that it was not alerted until late December that pre-departure testing requirements had been lifted for U.S. military personnel, but Washington ...

In Tokyo, the occupancy rate for hospital beds for COVID-19 patients rose 1 percentage point from Friday to reach 55.1%.

The second-year high school student was served the warrant on suspicion of attempting to murder a 72-year-old man, one of the three victims.